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ilovejedd · 07-16-2009, 11:02 PM

Coming from someone who's a bit anal about computer terminologies, there's nothing wrong with calling the hard drive "memory". It's only recent convention that has volatile memory (RAM, etc) referred to as "memory" while non-volatile memory (hard drive, CD, tape, etc) is referred to as "storage".

By the way, 64-bit Windows versions can handle 160GB of RAM. Theoretically, 64-bit operating systems should be able to handle 16 exabytes of RAM, assuming my calculations are correct.

07-16-2009, 11:02 PM	#20
ilovejedd hopeless n00b Posts: 5,110 Karma: 19597086 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: in the middle of nowhere Device: PW4, PW3, Libra H2O, iPad 10.5, iPad 11, iPad 12.9	Coming from someone who's a bit anal about computer terminologies, there's nothing wrong with calling the hard drive "memory". It's only recent convention that has volatile memory (RAM, etc) referred to as "memory" while non-volatile memory (hard drive, CD, tape, etc) is referred to as "storage". By the way, 64-bit Windows versions can handle 160GB of RAM. Theoretically, 64-bit operating systems should be able to handle 16 exabytes of RAM, assuming my calculations are correct.